Sometimes having the right skills isn't everything. You also have to be the right gender.
New research indicates there's a hard-wired bias against hiring women for positions that require a knowledge of mathematics, despite their ability to perform just as well as men with numbers. A team of academics published the findings of the research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The researchers designed a test in which male and female job candidates were asked to perform math functions that both sexes handle comparably. Following the one-on-one interview and the math test, both male and female hiring personnel hired men twice as often as they hired women — despite similar outcomes on the math tests.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
